April 21, 2026
Inconsequential Interlude
Take a break from the dystopia countdown to watch this.
Even if you know nothing about Genshin Impact, it's fun.
...and after Mauvika's motorcycle....it doesn't seem so out of place to people who are anymore.
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Scuff alert! Just now today, I watched yesterday's zenless stream. Your BGM channel, and then your game audio channel was fine.
Your voice channel was not audible to me. Maybe check your microphone, and stuff?
I checked several parts of the video, and did not hear your voice, so I guess it was not fixed?
Your voice channel was not audible to me. Maybe check your microphone, and stuff?
I checked several parts of the video, and did not hear your voice, so I guess it was not fixed?
Posted by: PatBuckman at Tue May 5 10:24:23 2026 (s6adZ)
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It's been a wild week. I went back and watched the V.O.D. to make sure the sound levels were OK and....they weren't. I checked the others, (I usually do a cursory double-check of the V.O.D. before publishing it, but had not this week.) Turns out 2 of the streams had issues, one with game audio, one with my audio.
I spent yesterday morning after work trying to figure out what was wrong since all settings seemed correct. I then went about deleting and re-installing the sources, then activating them via advanced audio options then doping several test recordings and that seemed to fix the issue...which does not make sense.
Last night's stream went OK.
But the solution had more in common with exorcism or magical incantation than any software fix.
I spent yesterday morning after work trying to figure out what was wrong since all settings seemed correct. I then went about deleting and re-installing the sources, then activating them via advanced audio options then doping several test recordings and that seemed to fix the issue...which does not make sense.
Last night's stream went OK.
But the solution had more in common with exorcism or magical incantation than any software fix.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Fri May 8 05:53:00 2026 (dLZLE)
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(I caught a lot of the stream last evening, and it looked and sounded very nice.)
Software man, software.
I'm a little jaded about the software world now.
Given how things seem to me, I am not at all surprised if it seems pretty much like a spell to people who are not technically inclined, and who are not trying to follow this stuff.
Lots and lots of work has gone into hiding the 'finger pinching' bits of software away from users, and in trying to make it seem like it 'just works'. This is fine up until the complexity explodes, and we start having trouble teaching people how to handle the fiddly internal bits. My self-study of this stuff has maybe been one of the more ill-starred. But I do know now that there can be significant gaps in the software fu that we try to teach university students.
What I do is much more 'I look for buttons to push until something works' than I expected five or ten years ago. One or two years ago, I think I still thought that if I read more books, I would start figuring stuff out better.
Software man, software.
I'm a little jaded about the software world now.
Given how things seem to me, I am not at all surprised if it seems pretty much like a spell to people who are not technically inclined, and who are not trying to follow this stuff.
Lots and lots of work has gone into hiding the 'finger pinching' bits of software away from users, and in trying to make it seem like it 'just works'. This is fine up until the complexity explodes, and we start having trouble teaching people how to handle the fiddly internal bits. My self-study of this stuff has maybe been one of the more ill-starred. But I do know now that there can be significant gaps in the software fu that we try to teach university students.
What I do is much more 'I look for buttons to push until something works' than I expected five or ten years ago. One or two years ago, I think I still thought that if I read more books, I would start figuring stuff out better.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Fri May 8 13:50:57 2026 (s6adZ)
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re: bootopia
The vendor trash that you should sell may be everything with a gem icon.
You should probably also try to use the various upgrades in the boxes you have unlocked, in the boost menu.
You can probably also more quickly decide what to grab, and what to ignore or leave behind, by looking at the color bar, and the icon. The purple/pink bar is better than the blue bar items, and those are better than the grey bar/no bar items.
The vendor trash that you should sell may be everything with a gem icon.
You should probably also try to use the various upgrades in the boxes you have unlocked, in the boost menu.
You can probably also more quickly decide what to grab, and what to ignore or leave behind, by looking at the color bar, and the icon. The purple/pink bar is better than the blue bar items, and those are better than the grey bar/no bar items.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Sun May 10 19:02:11 2026 (s6adZ)
Posted by: PatBuckman at Sun May 10 19:03:22 2026 (s6adZ)
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